Nutcracker.



, F; B. COOK.

NUTCRACKER'.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 6. 1914;- RENEWED JUNE 6, 191a.

1,274,856. PatentedAug. 6, 1918.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. e, rare.

Application filed April 6, 1914, Serial No. 829,880. Renewed June 6, 1918. Serial No. 238,607.

To all whom it may concern citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Nutcrackers, of which sists of few parts and which can be inexs out, so that the meats or kernels thereof may be removed in an unbroken or whole condition.

In the drawings accom anying and form ing a art of this speci cation, I show in detail t e preferred form of embodiment of the invention, which, to enable others skilled in the art to practise the same, will be set forth in detail in the following description, while the novelty of the invention will be includedin the claims succeeding said description.

The nut cracker herein described consists of a spben shaped body having stationary jaw, and a movable aw, the latter being preferably operated by a screw so that the amount of movement of the movable jaw necessary to break the nut can be exactly eflected, which fineness of operation cannot ordinarily be performed in nut crackers wherein one or the other of the members therein are directly operated by other of control, and the invariable excess movement of a movable aw causes breaking of Referring to thedrawings: Figure 1 is a planview of the nut cracker, Fig. 2 1s a side elevation of the nut cracker, Fig. 3 isa cross Fig. 1, Fig. 4 is a cross section of the nut cracker on lined-4 in Fig. 1. Like char- -in' j is com osed of a spoon .shapedbody 1 gs P a bottom of forming a receptacle havin V shaped cross section, having at one exy I extremity a threaded boss 3; a 'feed screw 4 Be it known that I, FRANK B. Coon, a

having at one extremity a reduced circular portion 5, said reduced circular portion bemg of hollow formation throughout its entire length; cross bars 6 at its opposite end, and a bell shaped jaw 7 provided with a cylindrical opening loosely receiving the reduced end portion 5 of said feed screw 4; the fixed jaw 2 and the movable jaw 7 be-. ing alined on the central longitudinal axis of the nut cracker. The end portion 5 is in the form of a hollow stud, upon which jaw 7 is free to rotate, said jaw being retained in position by upsetting the end of the portion 5 to form a retaining flange to engage a complemental shoulder of said jaw.

The spoon shaped body 1 has a -V shaped cross section to provide'a means for automatically locating the nut in proper position for cracking, regardless of the manner in which the nut may be droppedor laid in this body portion, thus doing away with the necessity for manually holding the nut in a proper position between the .two jaws to insure the nut being properly cracked.

This body portion 1 has an additional advantage in that the ordinary method of usin the nut cracker would be to lacethe han palm down, (after the nut inserted) over the top of said body portion, gripping'the body portion in a natural manner to allow the application of necessary ressure to the feed screw 4 by the other hand, and the act of holdin said body portion 1 in the hand, with t e palm of the hand'covering the V shaped opening therein, 'efiectively prevents the flying of the broken cracker vpalm upward [and removing the pressure on the feed screw, the fractured nut and broken shells willall remain in the 'palm of the hand, thus avoiding the unpleasant condition of flying shell parts heretofore experienced. This also provides a section of th t r k n li 3-3 i 1 most convenient means of'removing the nut and shells from the cracker.-

The end portion'8- of the body portion 1- is of increased cross section to stantial means for producin e. fixed jaw 2, and the two sides 9 of the ody ortion 1 are of rounded formation. to provi e a conas been rovide subvenient and comfortable means of gripping the'nut cracker during its operation.

I t5 tremity a. fixed; jaw 2, and at its other I I do not wishtolimit this inventionto the s; I tar/asst exact details of construction as herein shown, as many slight modifications may be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention.

What I claim is 1. An improved nut cracker comprising a receptacle having a bottom V-shape in crosssection, and provided at one end with a fixed jaw having an aperture therein, andat the other end with a threaded boss, a feed screw Workin in said boss, and a bell shaped jaw rotatab y supported by said screw opposite said aperture, said bell shaped jaw being p0- sitioned over the apex of said bottom and movable in a line parallel therewith 2. An improved nut cracker comprisinga receptacle provided at one end with a fixed jaw, and at the other endwith a threaded" boss, a feed screw working in said boss and provided with a hollow end portion, and a movable jaw rotatably mounted on said hollow end the latter being provided with an annular retaining flange to prevent displacement ofsaidmovable 'aw.

' In witness whereo I have hereunto signed my name this third day of April, 1914: in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' FRANK BLCQUK. Witnesses:

HARRY B. DAVIS, C. C. Nnwrrnam 

